Cassie Wilkinson is having a hard time caring for her papa, an eminent physician, after he suffers a stroke. So she is understandably reluctant to take on the care of Viscount Breckonridge's two greyhounds while he is abroad - although he does not g...
When the Duke of Wellington's scout, Titus, thinks he is dying in a church in Spain, he confesses he has lived the life of a rake, and vows to reform if he lives. Overheard by an imprisoned heiress, she frequently reminds him of his vow after he resc...
Alone since the loss of her family in an air-raid, Rosemary - newly demobbed from the WRNS - returns to her old home. But she is shocked to find that a whole family has been temporarily housed there. With little knowledge of children and cooking, and...
World War II: As part of the war effort, Vera Carter has been instructed to adapt her Cordon Bleu cooking skills to running a British Restaurant in Norfolk. This is not her only worry - the staff she's been given are all untrained, and don't always g...
When Julianne's engagement ring goes missing and her love letters disappear, she is distraught. Then she hears that her beloved fiance, the Earl of Featherstonhaugh, is involved in scandal. When he stops writing to her, Julianne decides she must find...
Vera's life, as a wartime bride and British restaurant cook, is thrown into turmoil when she is handed a vitally important message for her Royal Engineer husband - just after he has departed for D-Day preparations. She eventually catches up with him,...
Not comfortable with the genteel life of a spinster in Bath, Frances longs to go and find her father, Professor Arthur Cannon, presumed missing whilst on a plant-hunting mission in Central America. On the way she meets the intriguing, but secretive, ...
World War II is over, but new problems confront Vera. Her wartime job ends, and her husband Geoff is invalided out of the army and needs work. With two young children they must leave their home and move into a rundown cottage in Norfolk....
Hazel Crick is furious when her entry for the Town Art Show is rejected. Convinced her colleague Jon Hunter is responsible, she accuses him of vetoing her painting out of spite. Later that day, she waits beside Jon's car to apologise. But this puts h...
Resigned to spinsterhood, Amy Gibbon is astounded to receive a proposal of marriage from Viscount Charles Chard upon their very first meeting! Love quickly flares in her heart, but Charles is more reticent - he needs an heir, and this is a marriage o...
1816: When her father's famous fan shop in the Strand is reduced to ashes, Jemima dons the clothing of a maid and moves with him to the docklands of London - and is present at an accident where William, Earl of Swanington, almost literally falls into...
Having escaped a controlling relationship, won the lottery and given up work, Jenny is adrift at twenty-nine. Then her landlady's widowed son Alexander seeks her help in a family emergency, and she is catapulted into a different world of muddy boots,...
Devon, 1948. Invalided out of the WRNS, Mary is recuperating at Cliff Top Cottage, inherited from her late aunt. Missing the service, she's uncertain of her future, and of how to readjust to civilian life. Then Simon North - newly demobbed from the R...
When merchandise is stolen from the shop where Isabel Hindley works, she and the other shop assistants are under suspicion. So when Lady Yettington is observed going out of the shop without paying for goods, Isabel accuses her ladyship of theft, maki...
When Clare's wealthy, widowed aunt decides to remarry she expects Clare to act as a go-between for herself and Captain Peter Chatham. Peter has no intention of marrying, and to get himself off the hook, introduces the aunt to another officer. While...
Alone after her father's death, Jenny Brock feels intimidated by her farm manager, who intends to marry her to gain the farm. Accompanied by Robert Templer, the parson's son, Jenny runs away to seek protection from Robert's uncle, Sir James Templer. ...
On the way to Tavistock Goose Fair, Rosalind Maynard, the Squire's daughter, meets handsome Harry Hargreaves and finds herself becoming very attracted to him. Harry, who has been raised by a tinker, has recently discovered he is the long-lost son of...
In 1785, Susan Woodford and her invalid mother become penniless and travel to Bath for sanctuary. The flippant balloonist they meet en route is Tom, the Earl of Dearham. They lodge with his Aunt Mary, and Susan is dismayed to learn that they are hi...
Viscount John Coombe is forbidden by his war disabled father to fight Napoleon, and is told to marry. Soon after John meets Felicity, her maid steals her precious necklace and takes it abroad. John grasps the opportunity to go and search for it, taki...
Society had shunned Kate Bowling's father after her mother ran off with another man. Now her father wanted Kate to enter their circles to seek a worthy husband. Although dreading what lay ahead, she agreed to go and stay with her wealthy aunt and unc...
When her father loses his fortune, Sophie Longman must leave her Oxford school. On the coach journey home she makes the acquaintance of a handsome young student called Alexander, who is off to fight Napoleon. Eight years pass before their paths cross...
1816: Emily Hargreaves is destitute and lives in Stamford as companion to her spoilt cousin, Marian Delmont. Both are spinsters, and when Richard Salter and his friend, Simon Jones, meet the ladies, they are attracted to them. Simon admired Marian ye...
Lady Catherine is at the chateau of the Marquis de Clichy in 1789 when the French Revolution starts. She escapes with the Marquis's son, Bernard, her companion, a crippled maid and a young couple with their baby. They disguise themselves as a bargee ...
The year is 1815, and Philippa Hawkins is doing her best to get her sick parents and younger sister safely out of France, away from Napoleon's army which is moving up fast behind them. When their coach is held up by an angry mob, a dashing, young En...